Britain and France in two world wars : truth, myth and memory / edited by Robert Tombs and Emile Chabal.
Rance and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book will examine key episodes in the relationship between the two countries, including the outbreak of war in 1914, the battles of the Somme and Verdun, the Fall of France in...
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| Published: | London : Bloomsbury, 2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- 'Two great peoples' / Robert Tombs
- Part One. The First World War. Introduction / Gary Sheffield
- Crossed wires, 1904-14 / John Keiger
- Unequal sacrifice? Two armies, two wars? / William Philpott
- 1918: the push to victory / Elizabeth Greenhalgh
- Part Two. The Second World War. Introduction / Akhila Yechury and Emile Chabal
- Dunkirk in military operations, myths and memories / Martin S. Alexander
- The British, the Free French and the Resistance / Sébastien Albertelli
- The British and the liberation of France / Olivier Wieviorka
- Part Three. Remembering and Forgetting. Introduction / P.M.H. Bell
- Cultural divergences in patterns of remembering the Great War in Britain and France / Jay Winter
- The Second World War through French and British eyes / Robert Frank
- France, Britain and the narrative of two world wars / David Reynolds.